11:37 PM,
Mar. 16, 2013

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Mount Vernon has shelled out more than $930,000 in verdicts, settlements and legal fees for police brutality cases involving a sergeant who has remained on desk duty for four years after allegedly striking a 12-year-old in the head with a baton, a review of city and court records shows.

Three federal lawsuits since 2008 have named Sgt. Michael Marcucilli, including two in which juries found he used excessive force. And the plaintiff in a fourth case that does not name the sergeant insists it was Marcucilli who beat him up outside a city nightclub in 2008 - but that police crafted reports to hide ...